Examples

You can choose to educate yourself as to the facts and realities of how and why there must be a "noncustodial" parent chosen by the system, and why a child's time with the NCP is limited to every other weekend and a few hours one night a week.

States use several enforcement tools to ensure that noncustodial parents continue to provide financial support for their children, including withholding collections automatically from the parent's wages, unemployment benefits and state and federal tax refunds, depending on the situation.

This phenomenon — first named by Richard Gardner, a child psychiatrist, to describe domestic situations in the aftermath of a heated divorce in which the custodial parent (usually the mother) has successfully turned the child or children against the noncustodial “target parent” — is debated both medically and legally.